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Eastern In uence on
the West Closing Thoughts

Japanese culture has been very popular Personally, I have encountered multiple
amongst North American youth. From friends who are interested in Japanese
language to food, to anime and music, arts such as manga, origami, intriguing
North American teenagers are forms of Japanese acid jazz, Studio
surprisingly well-versed population in Ghibli movies, Japanese language,
the Japanese arts. This connects back to Buddhism, and even making sushi, ever
the deep-rooted history and culture since my youth. I never quite understood
Japan has with the arts and the unique the hype of it all until a last year when
style it provided. The rst example of studying the diverse metropolitan
complex art in Japan with a strong history of Edo, also known as Tokyo for
connection to Buddhism was seen in the an urban planning research paper. I had
seventh and eighth century. In the ninth watched this brief animated video on the
century, the Japanese began to free entirety of Japanese History (which I
itself from the cultural in uence from highly recommend), giving me a full
China and develop its own forms of grasp (in very simple English) on how
expression. Both spiritual and secular Japan has advanced ever since humans
arts became increasingly important until migrated there 15,000 years ago. I
the end of the fteenth century when realized the stark contrasts in western
Japan entered the Edo period or culture to the magic world of Japanese
Tokugawa period when organized imagination and immediately understood
religion began to play a less important why so many of my North American
role. That is when complex arts of friends are into Japanese culture and
secular expression became prominent. art.
Arts such as painting, calligraphy,
woodblock prints, origami, and more
recently, manga emerged.

Since contemporary Japanese culture is
ingrained with American culture, the
American awareness of Japanese
culture, music, philosophy and poetry,
and animation has rapidly increased.
Perhaps originating in the 1950s, with
American interpreters of Japanese
Alan Watts on Wu-Wei
poetry such as the prominent gures of
the Beat Generation. This included
mainly Gary Snyder, Cid Corman, Will
Peterson, and Joan Kyger. Many other
Beats were also highly in uenced by
Japanese Zen Buddhism such as Alan
Watts.
Kaneko Kinryo, Ninja
Walking His Dog.

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